hanged about

Example Sentences

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"It were better a milstone were hanged about his neck."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

For the rest of his habit he is a perfect seaman, a kind of tarpaulin, he being hanged about with his coarse composition, those pole-davie papers.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Sir, said the monk, this shield ought not to be hanged about no knight's neck but he be the worthiest knight of the world, and therefore I counsel you knights to be well advised.

From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed

"Divers do rashly teach that if it be hanged about the necke, or else carried about one it keepeth a man in health."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

Its illiteracy made him ashamed, and the helpless fondness it expressed was like a millstone hanged about his neck.

From The Minister's Charge by Howells, William Dean